Use essential oils, baking soda, vinegar, and castile soap to clean your home. Baking soda and some essential oils mixed with a tiny bit of water and soap make a great all purpose scrubber. The best part is that this is not only greener but cheaper! Also I agree with switching from using disposable cleaning products and napkins to cloth.

Keep a pitcher of cold water in the fridge, or as many as you can fit. Not only do you get really cold water without letting the tap run, but you can flavour it too. Lemon water is wonderful in the morning. On top of that, keeping the pitchers in the fridge saves on electricity too, since the fridge gets some help to stay cold. Just remember to pour any leftover water into the watering can by the end of the day, wash and refill the pitchers. That way, no water is gone to waste and you always have fresh, tasty water to drink. :)

Lern to use a pressure pan and cook your food faster and from scratch. That's a great solution to moms that have litle time to spare but really value high quality healthy meals. I cook beans from scratch every day and it only takes 20 minutes. Potatoes take 9 minutes... and so on.

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Compost your kitchen scraps, compost your yard waste, compost your torn up t-shirts if you are feeling really adventurous. Yes, you get extra credit for composting your cotton balls and cotton swabs, the occasional paper plates and napkins and greasy paper towels (nearly everybody uses that stuff once in a while) and all that is biodegradable.

Saves landfill space, saves fuel for carting garbage, and not burning yard waste helps keep the air clear. (Plus you can feel just a little smug because you only use the micro-can for garbage and pay the cheapest garbage rates).

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Spend 20$ on red wigglers, or ask around and find someone who can give you a pound, dump them in a plastic bin with some wetted down cardboard, paper, or yard waste. You have an instant super recycling factory. Paper and food waste can go right in and make super fertilizer for your garden. Amazing.

Buy used. There is barely anything that you need that you can't find on Craigslist or thrift stores. It may not be there right away, but waiting will make you evaluate if it is really necessary. It saves so much money and prevents more in the landfill.